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Class 5 GK Worksheet: Books and Authors

GK lesson 28: Books, epics and their authors · Set 174 · 40 questions
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Remember (Book and writer): Ramayana – Valmiki, Mahabharata – Ved Vyasa, Panchatantra – Vishnu Sharma, Ramcharitmanas – Tulsidas, Meghaduta – Kalidasa, Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore, Tirukkural – Thiruvalluvar. Godan and Idgah – Premchand, The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling, Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll, Wings of Fire – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. The Bhagavad Gita is part of the Mahabharata and has 18 chapters; there were 5 Pandava brothers.

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  1. 1.True or false: Meghaduta was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these did Kalidasa write? (a) Meghaduta (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Wings of Fire (d) Gitanjali
  3. 3.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: Thiruvalluvar wrote Ramcharitmanas. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.📖 How many books (parvas) is the Mahabharata divided into?
  6. 6.🏹 How many Pandava brothers were there in the Mahabharata?
  7. 7.Which of these did Premchand write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Meghaduta (c) Tirukkural (d) Godan
  8. 8.True or false: Ved Vyasa wrote the Mahabharata. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🏹 Who is the hero of the Ramayana? (a) Rama (b) Arjuna (c) Karna (d) Bhima
  10. 10.📖 How many chapters are there in the Bhagavad Gita?
  11. 11.📚 Who wrote the Mahabharata? (a) Thiruvalluvar (b) Kalidasa (c) Ved Vyasa (d) Rudyard Kipling
  12. 12.🐺 In The Jungle Book, which boy is raised by wolves? (a) Shere Khan (b) Bagheera (c) Baloo (d) Mowgli
  13. 13.True or false: Kalidasa wrote Meghaduta. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these did Valmiki write? (a) Tirukkural (b) Idgah (c) the Mahabharata (d) the Ramayana
  15. 15.🦊 The Panchatantra is famous for its ___. (a) war songs (b) maps (c) recipes (d) animal stories
  16. 16.Which of these did Vishnu Sharma write? (a) the Panchatantra (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) Tirukkural (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  17. 17.🏹 Who was Arjuna’s charioteer in the Mahabharata? (a) Rama (b) Hanuman (c) Ravana (d) Krishna
  18. 18.True or false: Valmiki wrote the Ramayana. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Bengali. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.📚 Who wrote Abhijnanashakuntalam? (a) Vishnu Sharma (b) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (c) Kalidasa (d) Valmiki
  21. 21.Which of these did Rabindranath Tagore write? (a) The Jungle Book (b) Gitanjali (c) Wings of Fire (d) Abhijnanashakuntalam
  22. 22.True or false: Vishnu Sharma wrote Idgah. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🗣️ In which language was Tirukkural first written? (a) Tamil (b) Sanskrit (c) Hindi (d) English
  24. 24.True or false: the Mahabharata was first written in Sanskrit. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🗣️ In which language was Meghaduta first written? (a) Sanskrit (b) Awadhi (c) Bengali (d) Tamil
  26. 26.True or false: Godan was first written in English. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🗣️ In which language was the Mahabharata first written? (a) Hindi (b) Bengali (c) Sanskrit (d) Tamil
  28. 28.🗣️ In which language was Godan first written? (a) English (b) Awadhi (c) Sanskrit (d) Hindi
  29. 29.📚 Who wrote Alice in Wonderland? (a) Valmiki (b) Vishnu Sharma (c) Lewis Carroll (d) Ved Vyasa
  30. 30.🗣️ In which language was the Ramayana first written? (a) English (b) Tamil (c) Hindi (d) Sanskrit
  31. 31.Which of these did Ved Vyasa write? (a) the Mahabharata (b) Alice in Wonderland (c) Meghaduta (d) Wings of Fire
  32. 32.📖 The Bhagavad Gita is a part of which epic? (a) the Mahabharata (b) the Panchatantra (c) Tirukkural (d) the Ramayana
  33. 33.🗣️ In which language was Alice in Wonderland first written? (a) Hindi (b) Tamil (c) English (d) Awadhi
  34. 34.True or false: Rudyard Kipling wrote Godan. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these did A. P. J. Abdul Kalam write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Tirukkural (c) Wings of Fire (d) the Panchatantra
  36. 36.Which of these did Rudyard Kipling write? (a) Abhijnanashakuntalam (b) Ramcharitmanas (c) The Jungle Book (d) Godan
  37. 37.📚 Who wrote the Panchatantra? (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Ved Vyasa (c) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (d) Vishnu Sharma
  38. 38.Which of these did Tulsidas write? (a) Ramcharitmanas (b) Idgah (c) Alice in Wonderland (d) the Panchatantra
  39. 39.📚 Who wrote Gitanjali? (a) A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (b) Rabindranath Tagore (c) Rudyard Kipling (d) Vishnu Sharma
  40. 40.True or false: Ramcharitmanas was first written in Awadhi. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Meghaduta
  3. False
  4. False
  5. 18
  6. 5
  7. Godan
  8. True
  9. Rama
  10. 18
  11. Ved Vyasa
  12. Mowgli
  13. True
  14. the Ramayana
  15. animal stories
  16. the Panchatantra
  17. Krishna
  18. True
  19. False
  20. Kalidasa
  21. Gitanjali
  22. False
  23. Tamil
  24. True
  25. Sanskrit
  26. False
  27. Sanskrit
  28. Hindi
  29. Lewis Carroll
  30. Sanskrit
  31. the Mahabharata
  32. the Mahabharata
  33. English
  34. False
  35. Wings of Fire
  36. The Jungle Book
  37. Vishnu Sharma
  38. Ramcharitmanas
  39. Rabindranath Tagore
  40. True

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